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  1. Tempest, The (1992) (1992 Television)

    Director
    Stanislav Sokolov
    Producer
    Dave Edwards
    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 324 minutes), £39.99 (Metrodome)

    The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own. Martin Jarvis is narrator.

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  2. Twelfth Night (1992) (1992 Television)

    Director
    Maria Muat
    Producer
    Dave Edwards
    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 27 minutes), £9.49

    The story in an animated version. All the lines spoken by the characters are Shakespeare’s own. Narrated by Rosemary Leach.

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  3. Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (1983 Film)

    aka: Strange Brew

    Director
    Dave Thomas; Rick Moranis
    Producer
    Louis M. Silverstein
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film arising from the SCTV television comedy sketch series. Oafish, lager-swilling brothers, Bob and Doug, secure a job at Elsinore Brewery where something is rotten. The brewery is managed by...

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  4. Fame (1980 Film)

    Director
    Alan Parker
    Producer
    David de Silva; Alan Marshall
    Subject
    Drama

    Musical drama. The fortunes of some of the students at Manhattan’s High School for the Performing Arts. During the auditions at the beginning of the film, several students recite Shakespeare; one delivers...

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  5. One is a Lonely Number (1972 Film)

    Director
    Mel Stuart
    Producer
    Stan Margulies
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film. When Amy Brower’s marriage to her professor husband James breaks up after he leaves with a student, Amy suffers depression and shock and tries to find ways of addressing the situation. In an...

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  6. Trouble with Girls, The (1969 Film)

    Director
    Peter Tewskbury
    Producer
    Lester Welch

    Feature film. Set in 1927 Iowa where Walter Hale (Presley) manages a Chautauqua show. Mr Morality (Price) is a lecturer. In one scene he quotes from Nietzsche, Jonson, Confucius and Shakespeare. In a later...

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  7. North by Northwest (1959 Film)

    Director
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Producer
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Feature film. A spy thriller taking it’s name from Hamlet’s line ‘I am but mad north-north-west’ (II ii). New York advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Grant) is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by...

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  8. Forbidden Planet (1956 Film, Video)

    Director
    Fred Wilcox
    Producer
    Nicholas Nayfack
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £19.99

    Science fiction story with a plot derived from The Tempest. In the year 2257, a distant star has three inhabitants - Professor Morbius (Prospero), his daughter Altaira (Miranda), and Robby the Robot (Ariel)....

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  9. It’s Always Fair Weather (1955 Film)

    Director
    Gene Kelly; Stanley Donen
    Producer
    Arthur Freed

    Feature film. Ted (Kelly), Doug (Dailey), and Angie (Kidd), are three ex-G.I.s who vow to meet again at a New York bar on October 11, 1955. They all show up on the appointed day, but quickly find that their...

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  10. On the Waterfront (1954 Film)

    Director
    Elia Kazan
    Producer
    Sam Spiegel
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. Concerns the fight to wipe out corruption in New York docklands. An introductory title extols the virtues of American democracy and claims that the story will show how corruption can be...

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